‘Trip yields multiple consensus’
Yang: Visits to Myanmar, Spain, Greece boosts trust in key issues
Senior Chinese official Yang Jiechi has said that his visits to Myanmar, Spain and Greece have deepened mutual trust, expanded cooperation and produced multiple important consensus.
Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the committee’s Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission, made the remarks on Friday in a written interview after he wrapped up the visits to the three countries.
Firstly, the trip has consolidated political mutual trust, said Yang, adding that China and Myanmar have agreed to maintain close high-level contact, implement the agreement reached during China president Xi Jinping’s visit to the country in January, as well as study and formulate an action plan to build the China-Myanmar community with a shared future.
China and Spain agree to further step up political dialogue and the synergy of policies so as to upgrade the level of strategic cooperation, he said, adding that the Greek side pledges to continue to prioritise its cooperation with China.
Yang also said that the three countries hailed the progress China made in containing the Covid-19 outbreak and in resuming work and production, view China as an opportunity for development and are ready to maintain high-level exchanges to consolidate strategic mutual trust.
Secondly, the visits have deepened mutually beneficial trust, Yang said, adding that China and Myanmar have decided to actively push forward the construction of the Myanmar-China Economic Corridor to take bilateral economic and trade cooperation up to a new level.
He also said that China and Spain agreed to further align their strategies for economic recovery, and deepen cooperation in exports of agricultural products, renewable energy, smart cities, electric cars, e-commerce and digital communications, adding that China and Greece agreed to further push forward the Piraeus port project.
Yang said that the third consensus during his visits this time is to push forward anti-epidemic cooperation, adding that China and the three countries have exchanged their views on their respective epidemic situations and their measures to contain the outbreak, and that the three countries agreed that China has stood with them in their battle against the epidemic.
He also noted that China and the three countries have agreed to step up their cooperation in the fight against the virus, the development of vaccines and drugs, as well as the production and sales of anti-epidemic supplies, and to jointly support the leading role of the World Health Organisation in the world’s fight to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. — Xinhua